Santa Rosa Current
17/11/2007 05:25 PM
Communiqué of the Santa Rosa - Leleque Community
So, we returned to Santa Rosa, Leleque, decided to live together with our Mapu (earth), and build our hut, grow up our vegetable gardens, raise fowls, plant fruit trees so we could live in dignity. We left behind our life in the city, which deprived us from work and food, as well as from opportunities to ...
12/06/2007 02:08 PM
Fashion giant in Mapuche land fight
Source: Aljazeera.net
A land dispute has pitted Argentine Mapuche Indians against fashion giant Benetton in Argentine Patagonia.
A dozen Mapuche Indians have taken up residence on more than 534 hectares of the disputed land, claiming that legally and historically it belongs to them.
Luis Millan, a ...
05/03/2007 12:47 PM
Mapuche challenge Benetton once again
LA PAZ, Bolivia - When Rosa Rua Nahuelquir moved with Atilio Curinanco onto a plot of Argentine land called Santa Rosa, she didn't expect to start a four-and-a-half-year battle with clothing giant United Colors of Benetton.
Now the evicted Mapuche woman has returned to Santa Rosa, with 30 other Mapuche. This time the Mapuche say they are there to stay.
On Feb. 14, men, women and children from the surrounding region climbed onto trucks and hitched ...
27/02/2007 12:55 PM
Mapuches Return to Benetton-Held Land
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 27 (Tierramérica) - Mapuche Indians in the southern Argentine region of Patagonia, who in 2002 took part in a land dispute against the Italian textile group Benetton, have returned to occupy land belonging to the firm, reclaiming their ancestral rights.
"This is not a protest, nor is it a clandestine action. We don't intend to be owners, but rather to live as a community in our territory," Mauro Millán told Tierramérica. He was acting as spokesman for the 25 Mapuches who since ...
21/02/2007 06:49 PM
Setback for Benetton: the Mapuche will not be evicted
Yesterday, the Public Prosecutor of Esquel rejected the claim of illegal seizure of property that the legal representatives of the Italian brothers had filed. The Public Prosecutor of Esquel rejected the claim of illegal property seizure filed a couple of days ago by La Compañía de Tierras del Sud Argentino [the South Argentine Land Company] against a group of Mapuche descendants. The company is owned by the Italian brothers Carlo and Luciano Benetton, owners of the Multinational clothing company of the ...
20/02/2007 10:58 PM
The claim of illegal property seizure against the community Santa Rosa-Leleque was based on the accusation that the Mapuche had caused damages and that the entry to the property had been in secret. However, an inspection carried out on Friday by the Public Prosecutor Luis Fernando Rivarola found a different scenario and yesterday the Public Prosecutor’s Office decided to reject the claim.
Governor Mario Das Neves indicated that the conflict should be solved by the justice system and let a remark slip ...